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I think it makes the second "d" silent.

The scorer is really only a factor in fielding percentage. Other stats--which range from bad to somewhat useful (if handled with care)--depend on how well fielders "get to" balls. They don't really "care" if the failures are due to errors, lack of range, or whatever.

Changing one's vote would be a nice poll option, but I guess we'll just have to chalk up your change mentally. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

...still in early arbitration. Based on the rest of your message, do you mean that they were still early in their pre-arbitration years?

I should have added that you have to be careful about drawing definitive conclusions from statistical studies, too. Studies can be flawed, and even the ones that are well constructed can raise as many questions as they attempt to answer. If properly designed, studies are organized and objective. Anecdotal evidence can't claim that.

That's why you use properly designed statistical study. Anecdotal evidence gets us interested, raises questions, and causes us to speculate. But it doesn't allow us to draw definitive conclusions.

Not to mention, the new TV deal doesn't kick in until the following year. I wonder if the Brewers might have gotten some immediate "relief" on the current TV contract as a result of re-signing. That'd be a good question to ask in a Melvin or Attanasio chat.

If the skunk lives in the woods, is it really going to bother anyone? Given that the messages above indicate that the act of killing or trapping is likely to cause a "stink," I think I'd leave it alone.

This looks like just the toy I need. Magic Trackpad http://images.yuku.com/image/png/a9d25245334365724f201bfb7d9f3a0bc49c47e.png It requires Snow Leopard. I installed it on my MacBook Pro when it first came out. This will motivate me to put it on the Mini.

I changed thread title to broaden the scope of this topic. As it stood, this would have been in-game thread material. If you feel inclined to discuss Rickie's contract situation, please use this topic: Should the Brewers extend Weeks?

The error list is all css syntax errors, which I'm guessing are mostly normal, browser-specific workarounds. I've only checked the errors on one style sheet, but this is what I see so far... There's some vendor-specific code that should be fine and safely ignored by browsers that don't understand it. There's a second tier of errors where properties or values that don't exist are used ("font-color" rather than the "color" and "auto" as a value for line-height). That's sloppy workmanship, but I can't say whether or not those would cause a browser to get upset. Those instances should definitely be corrected, though. A couple of other errors involve punctuation. As incorrect punctuation can cause big issues, those could be major. There's a period that should be a comma and a semi-colon that shouldn't be there. I'm surprised things aren't worse and that we're not seeing errors in other browsers. By the way, in the part of the css that we have control over, I did catch a comma that didn't belong. I found and fixed that yeaterday, though (before your post). http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Pages load very quickly if I disable javascript, but unfortunately, that's not much of an option these days. For the most part, Yuku works without javascript. But the pages look horrible. And in some cases, critical functionality lacks a reasonable "noscript" alternative. If Yuku would change a few lines of CSS, we'd be able to clean up the sloppy look (or better, Yuku staff could do it). Staff would have to deal with the functionality issues, though. Javascript availability--or lack thereof, isn't something that should be ignored by site designers. Quite a number of handheld users browse without it, either because sites break, bandwidth issues, or not having javascript support in the first place. Also, we've found that in the case of Yuku, some workplace firewalls block static.yuku.com; that's where all of Yuku's javascript is located. At work we're still on IE6, though upgrading to 8 shortly. Make sure that you let everyone know that you're upgrading to IE 8 just in time for IE 9. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

The slow start and hot finish pattern was something that was certainly noticeable during the Trebelhorn years. The pattern of slow starts likely contributed to his firing.

Rickie Darnell Weeks twenty round-trippers for us here in twenty ten.

At work I'm stuck with IE6 http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif bullox, would a portable browser that you'd keep on a key drive work for you? If you opt for "traditional" Chrome at home, you'd be able to use Xmarks to keep your bookmarks synced. Portable browsers: Google Chrome Portable (Windows)Portable Firefox (Windows)Portable Firefox (Mac)Diskono, how do you find Opera inadequate on Yuku?

Thanks for starting this topic, TooLive. I've added it to the board's Resource List and linked to it in the Transaction Rumors / Proposals Forum FAQ. Also, some ancient discussion of a somewhat similar nature has been split from the Transactions FAQ and closed; this topic can supersede it.

Old discussion that was formerly part of this topic has been split and closed. Please feel free to post any new resources to this topic: Fan Sites, Newspaper Links, & Resources Also, note that you can consult the Resource list within that topic. It's stickied in Issues in addition to being located above the discussion area on most board pages. If you have any new information regarding roster management and transaction rules, this topic is available: MLB Roster Management thread

I'm locking this in favor of this topic: MLB Roster Management thread

You're welcome, jjk. I was a big Netscape fan back in the day and I was ridiculously happy when someone dug it out from the rafters and gave it a nice tuneup. Many fans of the old Netscape Suite are likely using SeaMonkey. It has the familiar interface and features of the older Netscapes (without being green). Unlike the older Netscapes, it's modern, fast, and secure. And because it uses the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox, it renders pages well. I thought just about everyone used Firefox. I guess I wasn't far off. Small sample, of course, Al. But I'm not surprised at all that Firefox is dominating this very unscientific Brewerfan poll. I can tell by looking at the source code of the messages posted here. Yuku's post editor is (ridiculously) browser dependent. It's very easy to distinguish code produced by Gecko (Firefox and its relatives) vs. Trident (the IEs) vs. WebKit (the Safari-Chrome family). Stuff pasted from Word into IE is particularly bizarre (and hard for mods to edit). I'm not sure what kind of code Opera produces. I think a more typical distribution would probably go about like this: The IEs: 50-60%Firefox: 25-30%Safari and Chrome: 10-12%Opera 1-2%Other: 1%"Typical" doesn't really exist, though. Audiences vary from site to site. And there are factors which can make the statistics inaccurate. One would be browser spoofing (getting your browser to "lie" and say it's something else). Here are three sets of June, 2010, stats that are markedly different: W3Counter , w3schools, and Netmarket share. The results really depend on who's being measured and how the measurements are taken. For instance, w3schools' stats are for only its site, and it would have a fairly technical audience. That could very well explain relatively low shares for IE and fairly large shares for Firefox and Chrome. By the way, I'm wondering which browser the one "something else" vote was for. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Chrome (based on Chromium) is fast, sleek, uncomplicated, elegant, and modern. It uses Apple's WebKit engine, which is pretty much cutting edge in the browser world. The main downside is that Chrome assigns you a user ID number and "phones home" to Google with information about your browsing habits. It's not the kind of tracking that advertisers use. Rather, developers want to know which features you use, e.g. the back button or whatever. If the privacy aspect bothers you, SRWare Iron is exactly the same thing without Chrome's "phoning home" additions. Also, for Windows users, Comodo Dragon looks like it's worth investigating. Dragon would be the same as Chrome without "phoning home," but with some added security features. I can't say that I'm clear on what those features are, though. The Flock 3.0 beta (currently available for Windows) is also Chromium-based and offers social networking features. All Chromium-based browsers let you use Google Chrome extensions, meaning that you have a lot of customization options. I have Xmarks installed in Iron, for instance. Because Xmarks is also available for other browsers, it's a great way to keep your bookmarks synchronized across computers and browsers. I also use it in Firefox and Safari. (XMarks for Safari is Mac-only; for Windows users, there's an IE version.) Speaking of WebKit browsers, Safari 5's Safari Reader feature is way cool. If Safari detects that you've loaded an article, a "Reader" icon appears in your address bar. Click on it, and the text of the article "appears instantly in one continuous, clutter-free view." Other "clutter" on the page is blacked out. Additionally, if the article is spread across multiple pages, all pages are loaded in Reader. A major issue with all WebKit browsers, of course, is that Yuku supports them poorly. You have to put up with a crippled post editor or jump hoops. Yuku's going to be giving us a new post editor, however, there's no timetable for its release.

I beat you, Adam. I started with it back in 2003 when it was Firebird 0.7. I wonder if anyone here used it back when it was called Phoenix. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I remember 0.8 well, though. It didn't run well for me in OS X, so I didn't upgrade until someone could recommend a nightly build that worked decently. Also, if I remember correctly, while this was the first version to use the Firefox name, some parts of the interface still referred to it as Firebird.

I use Firefox 3.6.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7) as my primary browser. With extensions, I can customize it to have the features I like. I do jump over to other browsers quite a bit, though. Lately, I've been playing a lot with SRWare Iron. Essentially, Iron is Chrome without some of the privacy concerns that Chrome has. Unfortunately, Yuku doesn't support Iron and other WebKit browsers very well. I have a lot of browsers on my system, though, including Safari, Flock, Chrome, Camino, SeaMonkey, and Opera. At a given moment, I might fire any one of them up.

Every once in a while, it's interesting to see what people use to browse the Web. Although you can only "vote" for one option, I'd also be interested to see what people might use as secondary browsers.

Yeah, that too. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

I'd like to suggest discussing the contract status of Weeks and Hart outside of this topic. It's likely to overwhelm any discussion of Rickie's chances of setting a record. Here's an existing topic discussing the merits of a Weeks extension: Should the Brewers extend Weeks? There are several Hart topics in the Transactions Forum; I don't know if they'd be fit for discussing an extension or not. Corey Hart Love, here in the Major League forum, might be an appropriate place. If not, maybe a new topic is in order.